Bellezonia (or Bellezona) Kilby Gile was born Oct. 11, 1869. She founded the Roundup hospital in 1908. She married Edward Glassner on January 15, 1909 in Sheridan, Wyoming. Alonzo Kilby, her brother, was murdered near Delphia, Montana, in January 1902. She died on her 83rd birthday in 1952 - See Resident Dies on Birthday, Billings Gazette, October, 12, 1952. Her husband worked for the railroad as a civil and construction engineer. Detailed stories of the Glassners appear in the Billings Gazette in 1955 - See Billings Man Recalls Early Railroad, Billings Gazette, February 6, 1955, and See Early Railroad Builder Takes Homestead, Billings Gazette, February 27, 1955. Edward Glassner died at age 100 in 1965 - Funeral Conducted, Billings Gazette, July 8, 1965.

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